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Week starting Saturday, March 14, 2015

Emperors’ Treasures: Chinese Art from the National Palace Museum, Taipei brings to Houston more than 160 works of art that highlight the artistic and cultural contributions of imperial rulers in China.

In this gallery program for visitors who are blind or partially sighted, trained educators use verbal descriptions and hands-on materials to engage participants with the Museum’s art collections and exhibitions.

Long considered the pinnacle of Peter Paul Rubens’s innovative achievement in Flemish tapestry design, his paintings and tapestries in the series The Triumph of the Eucharist are among the most important works of art produced[…]

The exhibition Unfolding Worlds: Japanese Screens and Contemporary Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection includes 28 sets of monumental screens from Edo-period Japan (1615–1868). Among the prominent themes depicted are nature, urban life, and Japanese literature.[…]

When photography was invented 175 years ago, can you imagine what it felt like to see such an image for the first time? People used terms like "divine perfection," “miraculous,” and “a little bit of[…]

Islamic masterworks from Kuwait’s renowned al-Sabah Collection come to the MFAH as part of a long-term collaboration with the cultural institution Dar-al-Athar al-Islamiyyah (DAI). The privately held al-Sabah Collection is one of the greatest collections[…]

The new drama from renowned French director François Margolin (producer of The Flight of the Red Balloon) follows a Jewish woman who embarks on a journey to recover family paintings that were stolen by Nazis.[…]

Audiences are invited to experience the exceptional talents of up-and-coming artists from Houston Grand Opera Studio at a sparkling evening recital in Rienzi's intimate gallery. Developed thematically, each performance features a repertoire of works by renowned[…]

Based on a 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires, God's Slave follows Ahmed, trained since childhood as a terrorist, now assigned to execute a suicide bomb at a synagogue, and David, the Israeli special agent who[…]